Wednesday, June 18, 2008

How Insufferably Dreary

At one point in Love in the Time of Cholera, the upstanding husband pushes aside the dinner his wife had prepared, saying, "this was not made with love."

Frankly, there are few things which seem more horrible than this.† But it does seem like going from the frying pan into the fire to be then trapped in an eternal groundhog day with an elderly Basil Seal (who is, I believe, simply the Ideal of Modern Man, enfleshed).

†In close competition is the husband on HGTV who, while showing off his master bathroom, said, "This is something we always wanted, a shower for two people, very romantic." Perhaps he figured that his bride had no interest in privacy since she was allowing national TV to go through her house.